economismn.

1850 E. E. Hale & F. Le Baron tr. Lamartine on Atheism 49 For eighteen years, new sects, or rather, posthumous sects, have disputed for the soul of the people, under the names of Fourierism, of Pantheism, of Communism, of Industrialism, of Economism, and, finally, of Terrorism.

1886 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 28 Mar. 5/3 It is impossible to study the tendencies of government isolated from those of economism or industrialism.

1919 W. R. Inge Outspoken Ess. i. 23 Ruskin..saw..the danger to which spiritual values were exposed at the hands of the dominant economism.

1940 Mind 49 423 Marx's economism—his emphasis on the economic background as being the ultimate basis of any sort of development—is exaggerated.

1949 I. Deutscher Stalin ii. 31 The first strikes..stimulated a new trend called ‘Economism’. This peculiar label was used by Russian socialists to describe what the French called Syndicalism, that is non-political Trade Unionism.

1967 Times 19 Jan. 7/2 The past week has seen the coining [in China] of a new derogatory term, ‘economism’, which was linked today with the parallel errors of better wages and conditions.

1995 Guardian 9 Dec. (Outlook section) 25/4 On the right, economism has taken a very different form, but modern Conservatives, too, have shown a touching faith in the idea that economic principles can solve any problem.

2006 Canad. Geographer (Nexis) 22 Dec. 503 Criticisms of the economism of transaction cost theory should not be conflated with a rejection of the economic role and importance of markets.